Research integrity

All content published by LSE Press is peer reviewed and the process of peer review is clearly stated on the journal web page.

All journals published by LSE Press have an editorial board with members recognised as experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors on the journal’s Web site as well as contact information for the editorial office.

All journals published by LSE Press have a clear process for dealing with allegations of research misconduct. The Press and journal editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.

Open Access and copyright

LSE Press is an open access publisher, and all of our publications are free to read.

Journal content is licenced using a CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence, allowing full re-use with credit to authors.

Research data and software

In line with the LSE’s research data management policy we acknowledge the value in effective management of research data for long-term preservation and reuse. The policy states that “data will be open to the fullest possible extent unless covered by overriding commercial, contractual, legal, or ethical obligations”. As such our recommended licence for research data is CC0 and we have a range of policy types for journal editors to choose from. These are based on Springer Nature’s research data policy texts, made available under a CC BY licence:

Policy Type

Policy summary

Type 1: Data sharing and data citation is encouraged

The journal encourages authors, where possible and applicable, to deposit data that support the findings of their research in a public repository.

Type 2: Data sharing and evidence of data sharing encouraged

A submission to the journal implies that materials described in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data, will be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality.

The journal strongly encourages that all datasets on which the conclusions of the paper rely should be available to readers. We encourage authors to ensure that their datasets are either deposited in publicly available repositories (where available and appropriate) or presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files whenever possible.

A submission to the journal implies that materials described in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data, will be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality.The journal strongly encourages that all datasets on which the conclusions of the paper rely should be available to readers. We encourage authors to ensure that their datasets are either deposited in publicly available repositories (where available and appropriate) or presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files whenever possible.

The journal requires that all datasets on which the conclusions of the paper rely be available to reviewers and readers. Authors must deposit their datasets in publicly available repositories prior to peer review, or include them as supplementary information files with their manuscript. It is a condition of publication that authors deposit their data in an appropriate repository, and agree to make the data publicly available without restriction, unless reasonable controls on data access are needed to protect human privacy or biosafety

Data should be submitted to discipline-specific, community-recognised repository where possible (for example, UK Data Service ReShare or to Dataverse through Ubiquity Press, our platform provider.

ORCID

LSE Press strongly recommends that all editors, reviewers and authors register an account with ORCID. ORCID is a unique and persistent ID that enables accurate attribution for scholarly work, ensuring that the correct author receives the credit for their contributions. An ORCID remains the same no matter any changes of name, affiliation, or research area.

Peer review

Peer reviewing arrangements for individual journals published by the LSE Press are determined by the editorial board for each journal. We support a range of peer review models, depending on which is most suitable for the journal.

Indexing

We register our journals and books with as many suitable indexers as possible and can provide advice to editors on how to improve the chances of application to high impact index services. All of our article metadata are openly available for harvesting by indexing services via OAI-PMH and the journals are registered with Open Archives for discovery.

We assist our editors with getting their journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and can provide advice on getting indexed in databases such as Scopus or Web of Science.

Archiving

LSE Press content is archived with LOCKSS, and copies of all LSE Press content is also made available from LSE Research Online, the School’s open access repository.